During a month long trip through the Pacific and Asia I was startled to see an unusually large number of Asian women coloring their hair blond or colors close to blond. Genetically, Asians have black or very dark hair. Their hair is quite luxuriant and attractive. What was causing them to change their color to [...]
The price of gold in recent years has been soaring, and many people who know nothing about investing are buying gold, primarily out of fear that the future will bring surprising shocks for the value of their paper money. Governments across the world, from Europe to China, are trying to solve their economic problems by [...]
Europe’s marriage crisis By Maggie Gallagher, from Townhall.com A funny thing happened on the way to the overpopulation crisis. Just when demographers expected Europeans to nest in nuclear families with 2.1 children, population trends exploded in a different direction. Ron Lesthaeghe, the great European demographer, calls this the “Second Demographic Transition.” Its two most disturbing [...]
Every major bank and investor across the world is betting against the Euro. Today, it fell below 1.29 versus the U.S. Dollar. There is talk in the foreign exchange circles that it may hit par in 2012. Why? Europe is slowly entering an economic recession. For decades the Europeans lived on borrowed money. The Europeans, [...]
REVOLUTION IS AMERICA FACING A REVOLUTION??? by Sanford Pinna, M.D. Copyright 2011 There is a Protest Movement occurring in the U.S.A. at this moment, called “OCCUPY WALL STREET.†It is spreading from the big cities to the small cities and the media is fully aware and apprehensive about this new, unexpected challenge. AMERICAN SOCIETY American [...]
Canada Dollar Drop Is Largest in Three Years By Chris Fournier, from Bloomberg Canada’s dollar depreciated by the most since October 2008 as concern the global economy is sinking back into recession spurred a haven rally in the U.S. currency and dimmed the outlook for commodity prices. The currency registered weekly and quarterly losses as [...]
Economy Close to Stall Speed May Signal Renewed U.S. Recession By Peter Coy, from Bloomberg Economics isn’t rocket science, but the U.S. economy is a little like a rocket. If it has enough thrust, it can escape the tug of economic gravity. Not enough, and it just might go into a tailspin. Economists at the [...]
